Jonathan Kauffman is a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of Hippie Food, a narrative history of how Americans came to eat brown rice, tofu, whole-wheat bread, and granola.

Jonathan Kauffman is a San Francisco-based writer who covers the intersection of food and culture. A child of the lentil generation, a former line cook turned journalist, he was a restaurant critic in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle for more than a decade before joining the San Francisco Chronicle as a staff writer.

His restaurant criticism and reporting on food issues have won awards from the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.